Christoph Scholder

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Christoph Scholder (* 1967 in Tübingen ) is a German writer and university professor as well as the author of the bestselling novel Oktoberfest , published in 2010 .

Live and act

Christoph Scholder was born as the son of Professor of Protestant Church History Klaus Scholder . He went to the Uhland grammar school in Tübingen , where he learned Latin and Greek. He then successfully completed an apprenticeship as a banker .

After studying sociology , philosophy and psychology , he taught as a sociologist at the universities of Munich and Mainz. He presented his first publications at the International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen . He lives in Munich.

Oktoberfest

Festival tents at the Oktoberfest

The bestseller Oktoberfest was Scholder's first thriller . In it, he tells the story of a group of Russian elite soldiers who developed a life of their own in a chaotically ruled Russia after the end of the Cold War . Instead of training in the vastness of the former Soviet Union for an emergency, its commander gives his men the order to release a narcotic gas in a beer tent at the Munich Oktoberfest . And that's just the beginning: it continues in quick succession, the Oktoberfest visitors become hostages. In the end, the force held 70,000 people hostage.

Review of Oktoberfest

The book is about the question of how safe our lives are at the beginning of the 21st century. The old power structure between the big military blocs has disintegrated and the Bundeswehr is now involved almost as a matter of course with military missions abroad. The question arises as to what has become of the former great enemy, the Soviet Union.

The Munich evening newspaper headlined "Author stirs up fear of attacks" and made itself a mouthpiece for the anger of the Oktoberfest restaurateurs and local politicians. The debut novel enraged local administration and Oktoberfest hosts because it played out a mass hostage-taking of Russian terrorists: "So wos duat ma net", said the Oktoberfest host and spokesman for all Oktoberfest hosts, Toni Roiderer from the Hacker Festzelt , on the radio about the book. He hoped that nobody would buy it and that the author would only “vaschenga and throw it away”.

The author has deliberately avoided a real political background. The scenario told in the novel can in all likelihood not take place in reality. Nevertheless, mass events always involve a risk.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Scholder: Oktoberfest . Verlag Droemer, 640 pages. ISBN 3-426-19888-6. ( Memento from January 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Nerve gas at the Oktoberfest. Ex-Tübingen-based Christoph Scholder stirs the spirits with the thriller “Oktoberfest”
  3. ↑ Oliver Luxenburger , Sissy Perlinger , Christoph Scholder: The 95.5 Charivari Wiesnstudio - The Wiesntalk on Monday, October 4th, 2010. ( Memento from September 25th, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Video: The gas worked in seconds. Suddenly it was quiet in the huge beer tent. Dead silence.
  5. ↑ a b Jochen Dannenberg: Then the Ferris wheel suddenly stops. Mittelbayerische Zeitung, October 7, 2010.
  6. ↑ Julia Lenders: Wiesn: Author stirs up fear of attacks. Evening newspaper, August 16, 2010.
  7. ↑ Julia Lenders: Wiesn: "An assassination attempt is not feasible like this" Abendzeitung, August 17, 2010
  8. ↑ Jürgen Kaube: Russians hijack Oktoberfest - What is literature allowed to do? Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, August 24, 2010.
  9. ↑ Harder than James Bond. Augsburger Allgemeine, October 20, 2010.
  10. ↑ Michael Krause: Controversy is the breath of democracy.
personal data
SURNAME Scholder, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen